Here is a new action alert from the Alliance for
Health – USA. Please do not fail to take action
today! Share this important information with
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Alert: Protect Your Right To Natural and Bio-available Vitamin B-6!

Human beings cannot live without vitamin B-6. It
is also important for the prevention of cancer
and the prevention and treatment of seizures,
anemia, mental disorders including schizophrenia,
carpal tunnel syndrome, and other conditions.Its
effect on carpal tunnel can seem almost miraculous.

A natural form of the vitamin, Pyridoxamine, was
recently yanked off the market by the FDA. Why?
Because a pharmaceutical company, BioStratum,
wanted sole use of pyridoxamine in a drug, a drug
which may or may not ever appear. The company
filed a so-called citizens petition and the FDA
agreed, notwithstanding protests from ANH-USA,
other organizations, and thousands of citizens.
You might ask: how can Pharma take a supplement
off the market and claim exclusive use of it as a
prescription drug? The FDA does not presently
feel obligated to answer this question.
Unfortunately, this isn’t all the bad news about
vitamin B6. All forms of B-6, natural or
synthetic, must be converted to P5P, another
natural form, for the body to use it. Another
drug company, Medicure Pharma, wants sole use of
P5P and so has petitioned the FDA to ban its use as a supplement as well.

Medicure has yet to market a drug made from P5P,
but wants the ban to take place now. And never
mind that any individual unable to convert
synthetic B6 to P5P would have to rely solely on
Medicure’s product to stay alive.

How does Medicure think it can get away with
this? Its petition states rather candidly:
“Pharmaceutical companies developing new drugs
must be protected from companies that may seek to
market the ingredients in those drugs as dietary
supplements. The marketing of such products has
the potential to undermine the incentive for the
development of new drugs because many people may
choose to purchase the supplements rather than the drugs.”
This is not of course a case of supplement
producers creating a product to compete with an
existing prescription drug. It is just the
reverse. P5P, the natural and bioactive form of
B6, has existed in food for as long as there have
been humans and has been available as a
supplement for years. Medicure seems to be
saying: If it seems profitable, let’s just turn a
critical vitamin, one essential for human life,
into a drug, make it available only by
prescription, and mark up the price. This is truly outrageous.

The FDA has not yet responded to Medicure’s
petition. We have asked you in the past to send a
message to the FDA and Congress protesting
Medicure’s P5P grab, and the time has come to
send some more messages. So if you haven’t sent
in a message to the FDA and Congress yet, or even
if you have,please
send one today.

While we are discussing Vitamin B6, here is the
latest scientific report. An analysis of 13 U.S.,
European and Asian studies of vitamin B6 and
colon cancer, conducted from 2002-2009, has been
published in a special edition of the Journal of
the American Medical Association. Studies of the
range of B6 doses found that vitamin B6 taken in
higher doses reduced the risk of colon cancer by
21 percent. In one study, Dr. Susanna Larsson and
her colleagues at Sweden’s National Institute of
Environmental Medicine reported an inverse
relationship between the intake of vitamin B6 or
pyridoxine and the risk of colon cancer. Dr. Larsson

linked
the effect to bloodstream levels of pyridoxal-phosphate (PLP), the main active
coenzyme form of vitamin B6. Pyridoxal-phosphate is also known as pyridoxal 5-phosphate or (as we referred to it above) P5P.

Don’t let the FDA take away our access to the natural and most bioavailable form of B6, P5P.
Please take action now.

As always, thanks to the Alliance for Health —
USA for keeping us informed and ready for action!

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